Big East Wants to Expand

By The Associated Press

Jan. 29, 2013

The Big East Conference wants to add a member and may sign a television package that includes multiple networks, Commissioner Mike Aresco said, adding that the league wanted to keep its name as it rebranded. Aresco said the league no longer had plans to expand farther west than Texas. ¶ Michigan is No. 1 in the Associated Press’s men’s college basketball poll for the first time since its Fab Five days 20 years ago. For the second straight week, the No. 1 team lost. This time it was Duke, which was routed, 90-63, by Miami. Michigan received 51 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel in moving up from No. 2.